Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) - StrangeCrustacean

StrangeCrustacean — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:23:27 GMT

Set on Long Island, the film opens with Joey Buttafuoco playing drums, driving under the influence of cocaine, fleeing from the cops and visiting his mother's grave. At home, his wife Mary Jo awaits his return, disappointed in his drug relapse. After she threatens to leave him if he does not quit using drugs, Joey decides to enter rehab. Six weeks later, he is a renewed man, promising his wife he is now again the person she fell in love with. Three years later, in the summer of 1991, he works in an auto repair shop and meets 17-year-old Amy Fisher, who begs Joey to repair her car without telling her parents.